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Project Details

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Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript run-time environment that executes JavaScript code outside the browser.

Node.js brings event-driven programming to web servers, enabling development of fast web servers in JavaScript. Developers can create highly scalable servers without using threading, by using a simplified model of event-driven programming that uses callbacks to signal the completion of a task. Node.js connects the ease of a scripting language (JavaScript) with the power of Unix network programming.

In easier to understand words: Node-js is a free platform whose goal is to provide its users the possibility to create lightweight and cost efficient web servers, how does Node.js do this?

Node.js handles web server connections in a way so they don´t take up as much space in a server, and thus, the owner of a project would not need to invest as much money in multiple servers to store so much information in Gigabytes.

Being an Open Source Project, Node.js possesses immense value for providing so much while at the same time being totally free.

Contribution Specifications

695,558 words have been translated so far in the Spanish folder of Node.js, which amounts to a total of 66% done in regards to the completion of the translation of this big project.

Translation Overview

In this contribution, I continued translating the second http2.md folder of Node.js.

"HTTP/2" stands for "Hypertext Transfer Protocol, version 2", which refers to the network protocol used by the World Wide Web, created with the goal of updating the HTTP/1.1 protocol.

HTTP 2.0 doesn't modify the application semantics of HTTP. All of the basic concepts, such as the HTTP methods, status code, URI, and header fields stay unmodified; however, HTTP 2.0 introduces countless updates such as the usage of a single connection, header compression and the ‘server push’ service.

One of the relevant changes introduced by HTTP 2.0 is the removal of redundant information, whose objective is to avoid sending repetitive data during the same connection; thus resulting in decreased consumed resources, achieving less amounts of latency.

According to W3Techs, as of March 2019, 33.9% of the top 10 million websites supported HTTP/2.

This is my sixth translation contribution on the http2.md folder.

In my last contribution I found and translated multiple sentences that had the words listener, event and object in them. Because of this, I found it necessary to briefly explain the meaning of each of those words to better understand the content that I worked on, and to also make these concepts easily understandable to the reader.

This time, the concepts that showed the most relevance were Instance and Proxy Object

These are some examples of strings that show these words:

1 . INSTANCE

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2 . PROXY OBJECT

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I will now proceed to explain their meanings:

Instance:

An Instance is a variation of an object created from a class.

In object-oriented programming, an instance is a specific realization of any object. An object may be varied in a number of ways. Each realized variation of that object is an instance. The creation of a realized instance is called instantiation.

"Instance" is synonymous with "Object" as they are each a particular value (realization), and these may be called an instance object; "instance" emphasizes the distinct identity of the object.

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Reference for this concept:

Proxy Object:

In general terms, a proxy is a structural pattern whose goal is to provide an object with an intermediary to control its access.

A proxy object then acts as an intermediary between the client and an accessible object. The purpose of the proxy object is to monitor the life span of the accessible object and to forward calls to the accessible object only if it is not destroyed.

Proxies could interface to anything: a network connection, a large object in memory, a file, or some other resource that is expensive or impossible to duplicate.

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References for this concept: 1. 2.

Words translated so far on http2.md
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Here's the link to the http2.md folder:

Languages

The project's source language is English and it is being translated into Spanish.

Also, Node.js is currently being translated into other 32 languages. I´m contributing to making this project accessible to the Spanish speaking community online.

Besides collaborating as a translator for Open Source Projects on Crowdin I also work as a Freelance Translator for a law firm in the US, I've been working for that company for one year and five months, translating sworn statements and legal documents from English to Spanish and viceversa.

Open Source Projects I've worked on and contributed to as a translator:

1 . Verdaccio

2 . OroCRM

3 . BiglyBT

4 . The Curious Expedition

5 . Node.js